When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
EZRA POUNDDiscoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The artist is always beginning.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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